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  2. Glossary of probability and statistics - Wikipedia

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    Also confidence coefficient. A number indicating the probability that the confidence interval (range) captures the true population mean. For example, a confidence interval with a 95% confidence level has a 95% chance of capturing the population mean. Technically, this means that, if the experiment were repeated many times, 95% of the CIs computed at this level would contain the true population ...

  3. Statistics - Wikipedia

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    Statistics (from German: Statistik, orig. "description of a state, a country") [1][2] is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. [3][4][5] In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a ...

  4. List of statistical software - Wikipedia

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    Qlucore Omics Explorer – interactive and visual data analysis software. RapidMiner – machine learning toolbox. Regression Analysis of Time Series (RATS) – comprehensive econometric analysis package. Rguroo Statistical Software - An online statistical software designed for teaching and analyzing data.

  5. Statistical model - Wikipedia

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    A statistical model is a mathematical model that embodies a set of statistical assumptions concerning the generation of sample data (and similar data from a larger population). A statistical model represents, often in considerably idealized form, the data-generating process. [1] When referring specifically to probabilities, the corresponding ...

  6. History of statistics - Wikipedia

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    History of statistics. Statistics, in the modern sense of the word, began evolving in the 18th century in response to the novel needs of industrializing sovereign states. In early times, the meaning was restricted to information about states, particularly demographics such as population. This was later extended to include all collections of ...

  7. List of statistical tests - Wikipedia

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    When categorical data has only two possibilities, it is called binary or dichotomous. [ 1 ] Assumptions, parametric and non-parametric: There are two groups of statistical tests, parametric and non-parametric. The choice between these two groups needs to be justified. Parametric tests assume that the data follow a particular distribution ...

  8. Lists of statistics topics - Wikipedia

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    List of analyses of categorical data. List of fields of application of statistics. List of graphical methods. List of statistical software. Comparison of statistical packages. List of graphing software. Comparison of Gaussian process software. List of stochastic processes topics. List of matrices used in statistics.

  9. Summary statistics - Wikipedia

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    a measure of statistical dispersion like the standard mean absolute deviation. a measure of the shape of the distribution like skewness or kurtosis. if more than one variable is measured, a measure of statistical dependence such as a correlation coefficient. A common collection of order statistics used as summary statistics are the five-number ...